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Glad that a well-known and respected FM researcher/MD of U of Michigan, Daniel Clauw, wrote this rebuttal. I hope he and his group will continue to counter the onslaught of "anxiety, depression, stress, adverse childhood events" trope posed in research articles as causes of FM.

Mice as prey animals better have redundant systems to ensure that they get the hell out of reach of predators. So nice that the Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland (USA) was super excited about this research. :grumpy:

WHO International Guidelines for Biomedical Research in Human Subjects: Guideline 4, Risk/Benefit: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/ethics/web-cioms-ethicalguidelines.pdf?sfvrsn=f62ee074_0 The study's risk (no benefit other than the monetary enticement) patient info pdf prior to...

I spent 20 years as a dialysis nurse and saw the fatigue every day, post dialysis. Big shift of fluid and electrolytes removed during the 3-4 hr. treatment, most patients ending up with low blood pressure/volume due to all the retained fluid removed. Dizzy and staggering out of the clinic, home...

Post Viral Fatigue, Post Viral Syndrome, Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome (PVFS).

This study is on very shaky ethical grounds, hence the monetary enticement, which is in itself, an ethical violation of human research subjects' rights.

Echoes of the Israeli flower arranging class for FM. Highly effective, or so they wrote. But if they offer teleporting me to the class which lasts no more than 20 minutes, add in a real hot springs soak, and a snack of a good French baguette and melted Swiss cheese, I still wouldn't omit one...

"...rare disorder of....muscle marrow." Huh? Bone marrow there is, but no muscle marrow that I've ever heard of. Poor translation. NY International University is obviously an unaccredited "university" as they say they are "non-academic." Therefore their course offerings mean s**t. And the...

Review in Cell, 2021 on the origins of the virus, also a section on whether lab leak or not. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00991-0?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867421009910%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Columbia University Virology Professor Vincent Rancaniello discussed its origin on one his TWIV podcasts many moons ago debunking the lab leak theory. He said the virological markers of the SARS Co-V-2 virus mean that it could not have been produced by humans in a lab. I trust the majority of...

Trying to figure out this theory, the Immunculus is outlined here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0896841107001369

The institutions involved with my boldings. I particularly like Allergology, whatever that is. Also favorited is Phthisiopulmonology, not to mention LLC "Doctor Koshkina". Has Russia given up on English translation? 1 Laboratory of the Mosaic of Autoimmunity, Department of Pathology, Saint...

Zoffness' work is, in a word, platitudinous.

https://www.newharbinger.com/9781684036448/the-pain-management-workbook Link above is Zoffness' pain management workbook. Free download of some tools. What bothers me in the workbook is the relentless positivity, insisting that you can change how the pain disorder impacts your life by just...

I 'gifted' the link to y'all below: Oh, and Zoffness says "If the brain can change the pain can change." Oh really? I guess I haven't done enough of her New Age relaxation/CBT/guided imagery as my poor brain is still bombarded with high levels of pain signals from my PNS (or so the likeliest...

Looked up valcyclovir for suppression of oral herpes outbreaks. For most people, that means you take just one pill and that one pill only at the earliest sign of an outbreak.

What an excuse, a worsening of FM symptoms for THREE months, for promoting transcranial direct current stimulation and theory to go with it. In many general FM studies, the average age is 46. This being a cohort of middle-aged onset which may or may not have anything to do with pre- or...

Here's a neurology entry about SFN. Reading it makes me appreciate how complicated it is. https://practicalneurology.com/articles/2021-july-aug/small-fiber-neuropathy

And having "one FM-related symptom" does not cut it. ETA: Under Sheba Medical Center Rheumatology and Autoimmunity department's website heading: what they treat includes fibromyalgia. Under Fibromyalgia, the head states merely: Fibromyalgia Clinic, and the one and only mention is CBT. CBT...

So I looked up the autoimmune disease department at Sheba Medical Center in Israel, where they authors are based. And a familiar study came up in that search, on the first page. Remember the floral arranging and how it vastly improved FM symptoms? Yup, Sheba FM "researchers" or someone with a...